Abstract
Time and space—how we think and feel about them—determine our images of God. Space used to be territory and time an arrow, so hierarchical arrangements and stories that proceed relentlessly from beginning through middle to end made sense. But what if the world is not hospitable to a sovereign with schemes? Contemporary cosmology shifts us from a world where God has all the ducks in a row to a world of invention and variety, the ducks flying around all over the place. Italo Calvino's stories in Cosmicomics serve the religious imagination, which has been given a renewed lease on life by modern science.
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